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CARL O. LANGE, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GEORG W'ILHELM ONKEN, OF SAME PLACE.

CARBURETER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,725, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed $eptember 28, 1898. Serial No. 692,109. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL O. LANGE, civil engineer, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Carbureters, (for which I have made application for German Patent, filed July 9, 1898,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in carbureters; and the object of the present invention is to provide a carbureter for transforming atmospheric air into a combustible gas for lighting, heating, and so on, the novel construction and combination and arrangement of parts being hereinafter fully described, illustratedin the drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are substantially vertical sectional views of each other.

A in the drawings designates a casing or reservoir having an extension A on the bottom part thereof.

a is a supply-pipe through which the benzol with which the air is carbureted flows into the reservoir and is supplied with an automatic stop-cock whereby the flow of the benzol is regulated and retained at a certain height within the reservoir. Supported within the reservoir is a frame g, carrying a plurality of broad wicks c, which absorb and by capillary attraction are saturated with the carbureting liquid. The wicks pass over retaining-brackets at the bottom of frame, one below the other, and the free ends are secured to the top of frame, thus allowing any specified numberof wicks to be emerged in the carbureting liquid; or they may be entirely removed by means of the hand-wheel h and spindle e, supporting the frame 9.

cl is the air-supply pipe, branching into a plurality of perforated pipes within the reservoir proper and located between the wicks. As the air rises between the benzol-saturated wicks it comes in contact with the vapor of the benzol, is impregnated therewith, and passes out of the exhaust-pipe f into a retaining-res ervoir and is ready for use.

j is a scale to determine the number of wicks emerged and by which the wick-frame may be readily adjusted to bring the desired nu m- .ber of wicks into action.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a carbureter, the combination of a receptacle, an automatically-controlled oil-supply pipe, a Vertically-adjustable wick-carrying frame, a plurality of air-supply pipes located between the intervening wick-spaces, and an exhaustpipe, substantially as described. V

2. In a carbureter, the combination of a receptacle, an antomatioally-controlled oil-supply pipe, a vertically-adjustable wick-carrying frame having the wicks secured thereon one around the other with intervening airspaces, so one or more wicks may be emerged in the 'carbureting liquid, and air-supply pipes located between the wicks, substantially as described.

3. In a carbureter, the combination of the receptacle A, the extension A the oil-supply pipe a, the automatic stop-cock b, wick-carrying frame g, hand-wheel h, spindle t', airsupply pipes cl, gage j, and exhaust-pipe f substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARL O. LANGE.

Witnesses:

E. A. L. MUMMENHOFF, W. P. LEONHARD. 

